Big West Tournament believe what you want but the first couple years Les was at Bradley - he had a near-total rebuild,
and all the former players left. Plus he was not allowed to choose his own staff - admin chose one assistant for him. But he was still only a couple games under .500.
Then starting in his 4th season he had a run of four straight years with 21 or 22 wins each year.
..then starting in 2008, the hostile University President fired the highly successful AD (Ken Kavanagh, who then went to FGCU and won the National AD of the Year TWICE!)
..then she went after Les' staff and began firing his assistants one by one. It was a nightmare situation. Then she ran off a couple of his best recruits including Tyler Les who came to UC-Davis (remember, Tyler came to UC-Davis and played one year for Stewart even before Jim was here- then led the nation in 3-pt shooting) - so the last couple years at BU, Jim's poor record was kind of a result of upper level meddling - caused intentionally by the ogre in order to force Jim out and gain enough leverage to convince the Board to fire him, making it impossible for Les to win.
Jim' overall record at Bradley in seasons where he was able to choose his own staff was 86-56 and 40-32 in conference, with a Sweet Sixteen run, four years of post-season tournament bids and three of his players played in the NBA.
and you know how hard it is to recruit good players at UC-Davis - Jim does as well as anyone can. He had Kihei Clark signed but then Clark blew up the summer after he signed and went to Virginia instead-
All Clark's done since is win a National Championship at UVa and is right now playing vs. Duke in the ACC Championship game.